"Poetry is the devil's wine"
Aurelius Augustine (354 - 430)

"...Poetry is painting that is heard..."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

"Poetry is the music of words"
Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)

The word "poetry" comes from the Greek. poieo - create, create, build, create.

It is believed that the most ancient verses-hymns were created in the XXIII century BC. The author of the poems is the poetess-priestess Enheduanna, who was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon, who conquered Ur (the territory of Iran). Enheduanna wrote about the moon god Nanna and his daughter, the morning star goddess Inanna. The hymns of Enheduanna were considered sacred.

The poetic form until the Renaissance was revered in Europe as one of the main conditions of beauty and was practically the only tool for turning words into art. In Russian literature in the "golden age" of Russian literature, and sometimes even today, poetry was often referred to as all fiction, in contrast to non-fiction.

In 1999, at the 30th session of the UNESCO General Conference, it was decided to celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21 every year.

The date - March 21, the day of the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere, was chosen as a symbol of the renewal of nature and the creative nature of the human spirit.

The first World Poetry Day was held in Paris on March 21, 2000, where the headquarters of UNESCO is located.

On this day, festivals, quizzes and competitions of famous and beginning poets are held in different countries of the world.

In addition, World Poetry Day should give an opportunity to express themselves more widely to small publishing houses, through whose efforts the work of contemporary poets mainly reaches readers, to literary clubs reviving the age-old tradition of a living sounding poetic word.

This Day, according to UNESCO, is intended to serve to create a positive image of poetry in the media as a truly modern art open to people.
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The first initiative to establish an official Poetry Day dates back to the late 1930s. In 1938, the American state of Ohio, at the initiative of the poetess Tessa Sweezy Webb, proclaimed October 15 Poetry Day - it was the birthday of the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Later, this date was recognized by thirty-eight states of the United States, as well as Mexico, and was celebrated as National Poetry Day. Then this day began to be celebrated in other countries as World Poetry Day.
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In Moscow, the first Poetry Day was held on March 21, 2000 at the Taganka Theatre. Its initiator was the "Voluntary Society for the Protection of Dragonflies" (DOOS), headed by the poet Konstantin Kedrov.

The celebration of World Poetry Day in Russia is celebrated annually by various poetic events in theaters, literary clubs and salons.
Since 2009, events dedicated to Poetry Day have been organized at the Central House of Writers with the support of the literary portal Poetry.ru in partnership with the UNESCO Office in Moscow and under the auspices of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.

Poetry.ru - the largest server of contemporary poetry in Russia
http://www.stihi.ru/

National Literary Award "Poet of the Year"
http://www.stihi.ru/poetgoda/
The National Literary Award "Poet of the Year" was established by the Russian Literary Club together with the publishing house "Author's Book" in order to find new talented authors who can contribute to modern literature.

"Poetry Calendar"- heading Dmitry Shevarov in the Russian newspaper
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"Anthology of Russian poetry for family reading" - site http://antologia.xxc.ru/

A space for sound and visual communication with the world of Russian poetic classics has appeared on the Web: the site "Anthology of Russian Poetry for Family Reading". Here you can hear (and see!) how ancient lines sound performed by modern actors, how landscapes by Russian artists come to life to the music of Tchaikovsky. Poems, many of which were for a century, or even a century and a half, are completely forgotten by the Russian reader, now, like fresh news, they are scattered on Facebook and VKontakte.
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Poem as a gift

Vasily Zhukovsky
To poetry
A wonderful gift from the gods!
About fiery hearts fun and love,
O quiet charm, charm of the soul -
Poetry! With you
And sorrow, and poverty, and gloomy exile -
Lose their terror!
In the shade of the oak forest, above the stream,
Friend Phoebus, with a clear soul,
In his wretched hut,
Forgotten rock, forgotten rock, -
Sings, dreams and - blessed!
And who, and who is not animated
Your divine influence?
Tsevnitsy rude brooding rattling
Laplander, wild son of the snows,
He glorifies his foggy homeland
And the unartificial harmony of verses,
Looking at the stormy waves, depicts
And your smoky hut, and the cold, and the sound of the seas,
And the fast run of the sleigh,
Flying through the snows with swift-footed deer.
Happy lot miserable,
Shout, leaning on the plow,
Drawn slowly by tired oxen,
Sings its forest, its peaceful meadow,
Carts creaking under the sheaves,
And the sweetness of winter evenings
When, with the noise of a blizzard, before the brilliant hearth,
In the circle of his sons
With a drink foamy and boiling,
He pours joy in the heart
And peacefully falls asleep at midnight,
Forgetting the sweat shed on the wild reins...
But you, whom the ray of heaven quickens,
Singers, friends of my soul!
In the sad journey of this momentary life
Strew the thorny path with flowers
And pour out your flame into ardent hearts!
Yes, by the sound of your loud lyres
Hero, awakened to glory,
Divit and shake the world!
Yes, the young man is inflamed
Tears are shed from them in delight,
The altar of the fatherland kisses
And death for him, as a blessing, awaits!
Yes, the poor worker will blossom in soul
From your blessed songs!
But let your thunder fall
On these cruel and depraved,
Who, in shame, with lofty brows,
Innocence, valor and honor trampled underfoot,
They dare to call themselves demigods!
Friends of heavenly muses! captivated by vanity?
Despising momentary successes -
Insignificant voice of praise, cymbal ringing
empty, -
Despising the luxury of joy,
Let's follow in the footsteps of the greats! -
The path to immortality is open to us by fate!
Let us not shame ourselves with praise
High lot, contemptuous soul, -
We dare to crown the worthy!
Is it Phoebov's favorite to chase a ghost?
To the favorite of Phoebov in the dust to grovel
And deceive Fortune with humiliation?
Offspring distributes crowns and disgrace:
Let's dare to turn our mausoleum into an altar!
O glory, admiration of the heart!
O sweet lot - in love
offspring live!

December 1804

Phoebus- (Greek - shining), the second name of the god Apollo
Tsevnitsa- folk wind musical instrument, a kind of flute
Oratay- plowman, plowman, tiller, plow (who holds the plow)

"Poetry is the music of the soul"
Voltaire

In 1999, at the 30th session of the UNESCO General Conference, it was decided to celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21st. The first World Poetry Day was held in 2000 in Paris, where the headquarters of UNESCO is located.

“Poetry,” the UNESCO decision says, “can be the answer to the most acute and profound spiritual questions of modern man, but for this it is necessary to attract the widest possible public attention to it. In addition, World Poetry Day should give an opportunity to express themselves more widely to small publishing houses, whose efforts mainly reach the readers of the work of modern poets, to literary clubs that revive the age-old tradition of a living sounding poetic word. "It is believed that the most ancient hymns were created in the 23rd century BC. The author of the poems is the poetess-priestess En-hedu-ana (En-hedu-ana), about whom it is only known that she was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon, who conquered Ur (the territory of Iran). En-hedu-ana wrote about the moon god Nanna and his daughter, the morning star goddess Inanna. Today, traditionally in many countries of the world, literary evenings, festivals, presentations of new books, literary prizes, etc. are held on the occasion of World Poetry Day. According to UNESCO, this Day is intended to serve to create a positive image of poetry in the media as a truly modern art, open people. Thanks to its associations, metaphors, its own grammatical structure, the language of poetry is another reflection of communication between cultures, promotes mutual understanding and rapprochement of peoples.

On the American continent, the Yale Group of Young Poets Award is well known. It was established in 1919 and is the oldest annual poetry award in the United States. It is awarded to America's most promising young poets.

And, for example, in China, poetry readings are even held in honor of the Dragon Boat Festival.

In Moscow, the first Poetry Day was held on March 21, 2000 at the Taganka Theater on the initiative of the DOOS group headed by the poet Konstantin Kedrov. Since then, the celebration of Poetry Day, which is traditionally held with the support of the Taganka Theater, has been celebrated annually with a variety of poetry events that take place in theaters, literary clubs and salons. Since 2005, the national literary prize "Poet" has been awarded in Russia.

In recent years, this holiday has also been celebrated at the Moscow Art Theater, the State Center for Contemporary Art, major book centers such as the Biblio-Globus and other cultural institutions. The International Festival "Biennale of Poets" is held annually in Moscow, the prize "Moscow account" is awarded, the poetic Oscar of the Russian capital. Another award, which is called "Moscow-Transit", is an expression of the unflagging interest of the Moscow literary community and Moscow readers in the poetic work of authors working outside the capital. In Moscow, one of the cultural and poetic capitals of the world, the celebration of World Poetry Day usually lasts about 10 days.

In 2008, the program of the World Poetry Day in Moscow included a kind of poetic marathon, presentation of new books, lectures on the poetry of the last thirty years, presentation of various poetry awards, and much more. In 2009, on the day of the holiday, a solemn event was held at the Central House of Writers with the establishment of the "Union of Internet Poets", speeches by famous literary figures and the presentation of a new literary competition "People's Poet".

In Runet, the sites of novice poets “Poems. Ru" and "Position. Ru”, where any aspiring poet can publish his poems and get advice from a more experienced pen comrade. Almost 300 thousand authors are registered on the Potihi.ru server alone, and the daily audience is about 50 thousand visitors, who in total view more than a million pages.

Today it is already impossible to imagine our life without poetry... Without congratulations on holidays, without songs, without Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare, modern authors.... How much more colorless would our already difficult life be without the magic and music of the poetic word. Poetry Day in Russia is an occasion to congratulate at least a million poets, and even more admirers of their talent. And how many more people who, although they do not compose poetry, can say that poetry lives in their souls. Let's congratulate each other on such a wonderful holiday!

“…Poetry is painting that is heard…”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

"Poetry is the music of words"

Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)

World Poetry Day is celebrated annually on March 21st. Poetry is probably one of the most ingenious achievements of mankind. To pour out one's feelings in poetic form, to capture one's worldview in rhyme, to dream of the future and remember the past, while simultaneously addressing millions and remaining alone with oneself - only poetry, the greatest of the arts created by man, is capable of this.

The magical power of the poetic word can have a huge impact on any person. Let's remember that the first verses that every person heard in his life were the words of a lullaby. This is truly the brightest and most beautiful poetry.

Poetry has traditionally played an important role in the history of Russian culture.

The Russian land has the right to be proud of the great poets whose work is of world significance. But 2015 is a special year, it is the Year of Literature and the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Therefore, we dedicate this article to military poets and military poetry.

History of World Poetry Day

For the first time, the American poetess Tesa Webb came up with the initiative to establish the holiday in the mid-30s of the 20th century. She proposed to celebrate International Poetry Day on October 15, in honor of the birth date of the famous poet and philosopher Virgil. It should be noted that her proposal found a positive response in the hearts of many people: by 1951, October 15, National Poetry Day was celebrated not only in 38 US states, but also in European countries. The celebrations were unofficial in nature, and the date of their holding was not fixed in any way in the calendar of memorable days.

The date - March 21, the day of the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere, was chosen as a symbol of the renewal of nature and the creative nature of the human spirit.

The main goal of the International Day of Poetry was to emphasize the great importance that literature plays in the cultural life of modern society, to unite poets from all over the world and give them the right and opportunity to express themselves!

It is believed that the oldest verses-hymns were created in the 23rd century BC. The author of the poems is the poetess-priestess En-hedu-ana (En-hedu-ana), about whom it is only known that she was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon, who conquered Ur (the territory of Iran). En-zhedu-ana wrote about the moon god Nanna and his daughter, the morning star goddess Inanna. The hymns of Enheduanna were considered sacred.

The poetic form until the Renaissance was revered in Europe as one of the main conditions of beauty and was practically the only tool for turning words into art. In Russian literature in the "golden age" of Russian literature, poetry was often referred to as all fiction, in contrast to non-fiction.

What and how does poetry express

The word "poetry" comes from the Greek. poieo - create, create, build, create.

At all times people loved and believed poets. After all, poetry is created by the feelings, emotions, imagination of the poet. The ancient Greeks meant by poetry human speech, in all its manifestations. This is prose, and theatrical recitation, and inspired speech and philosophical debate, and, of course, poetry. At present, poetry seems to be something beautiful, unusual, and this is actually so. Only those who can see the sublime beyond the ordinary, can immerse themselves in an imaginary world, have a fine spiritual organization and depth of feelings, can write poetry.

Poetry allows you to enjoy the word, gives rise to strong, soulful words that have a special energy that subjugates our imagination and carries along. The poet breathed this great power into them, and he draws it from the world around us, perceiving and feeling the power of the wind and the sun, hearing the melody of the oncoming waves and the rustling forest, finding it in the disturbing tension of love.

After all, the poet looks at our world in a completely different way and is explained by understandable and inspired images. Our beautiful Russian language is indebted to writers and poets for the appearance of many words. The word "substance" was invented by Lomonosov, "industry" belongs to Karamzin, and "bungling" belongs to Saltykov-Shchedrin. Thanks to the poetic insight of Igor Severyanin, we got acquainted with the word "mediocrity".

Poetry is forever young, quivering and beautiful love of mankind! There is no people on our planet who would not be familiar with it.

Of course, poets have varying degrees of talent, but sometimes geniuses like Pushkin are born, who give mankind immortal works that for centuries confuse the imagination of people and make them think and feel. Poets remain living witnesses of time.

If we step into the abyss of beautiful words, then a whole new world will open before us!

Poetry scorched by war...

They say that when the cannons rumble, the muses are silent. But from the first to the last day of the war, the voice of poets did not stop. And cannon cannonade could not drown it out. Readers have never listened so sensitively to the voice of poets. The famous English journalist Alexander Werth, who spent almost the entire war in the Soviet Union, in the book "Russia in the War of 1941-1945." testified:

Russia is also perhaps the only country where millions of people read poetry, and literally everyone read poets like Simonov and Surkov during the war.

The upheavals of the war gave birth to a whole generation of young poets, who were later called front-line poets, their names are now widely known: Sergei Narovchatov, Mikhail Lukonin, Mikhail Lvov, Alexander Mezhirov, Yulia Drunina, Sergei Orlov, Boris Slutsky, David Samoilov, Evgeny Vinokurov, Konstantin Vashenkin, Grigory Pozhenyan, Bulat Okudzhava, Nikolai Panchenko, Anna Akhmatova, Musa Jalil, Petrus Brovka, Olga Berggolts and many others. Poems created during the war years are marked by the harsh truth of life, the truth of human feelings and experiences. In them, sometimes, even sharp, even calling for revenge on rapists and offenders, the humanistic principle sounds imperiously. All types of poetic weapons: both fiery invocative journalism, and sincere lyrics of a soldier's heart, and caustic satire, and large forms of lyrical and lyric-epic poems - found their expression in the collective experience of the war years.

Poetry (of course, the best things) has done a lot to arouse in menacing, catastrophic circumstances a sense of responsibility in people, an understanding that from them, from everyone, it is from him - no one else, no one can shift responsibility - depends on the fate of the people and the country.

The poems of Simonov, Surkov, Isakovsky taught to fight, to overcome military and rear hardships: fear, death, hunger, devastation. Moreover, they helped not only to fight, but also to live. It was during the harsh wartime, more precisely, in the most difficult first months of the military suffering, that almost all of Simonov’s poetic masterpieces were created: “Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region ...”, “Wait for me, and I will return”, “If we were with our power ...” , "The major brought the boy on a carriage ... ". A person placed in exceptional circumstances, subjected to the most cruel trials, re-learned the world and from this he himself became different: more complex, courageous, richer in social emotions, sharper and more accurate in assessing both the movement of history and his own personality. War has changed people. They now look differently at the world and at themselves. “I am different”, “I am not the same, not the same as I was in Moscow before the war,” so it is stated in the poems of K. Simonov (“Meeting in a Foreign Land”) of 1945.

An unusual overcoat, bitterness of parting, motherly tears, and then the first deaths, and “bombing all day” - all this taken together ends with a phrase that sounds surprise, and rejection of illusions, and irony, and, above all, maturity, calmly - courageous understanding of the truth:

Yes, the war is the way we wrote it -
This is the bitter truth...

Courage and love are inseparable in the heart of a soldier, and this is probably why the poems of the war years give the impression of special integrity and harmony. A single character is unfolding before us, and this is the character of the very person who survived the first battles with fascism, and then defeated the enemy. One Chekhov story says that "from the sad song, a free life was drawn." So from the sadly separated "Dugout" breathes strength, unquenchable love for a woman, for life, for his native land. As if in the bitter frost of the first military winter, the breath of a still distant, but inevitable spring was heard!

“Wait for me, and I will return to spite all deaths ...” - a poem by K. Simonov called in spite of everything - to hope and wait! And the front-line soldier to believe that they are waiting for him at home. This faith will in many ways nourish his courage and fortitude. The work took to the heart with the conviction of the inevitability of a meeting of people reaching out to each other. The phenomenon of "Wait for me", cut out, reprinted and rewritten, sent home from the front and from the rear to the front, the phenomenon of a poem written in August 1941 at a strange dacha in Peredelkino, addressed to a very specific, earthly, but at that moment - a distant woman, goes beyond poetry. “Wait for me” is a kind of prayer, an incantation of fate, a fragile bridge between life and death, and it is also the support of this bridge. It predicts that the war will be long and cruel, and it is guessed that man is stronger than war. If he loves, if he believes.

The poem “In the Frontline Forest” by M. Isakovsky stands out for its rare cheerfulness, although the reminder of peaceful days exacerbated the drama of the existing situation, and the poet did not hide: tens of thousands of people every day went consciously and meaningfully to death. In the richest poetry of the war years, no one, perhaps, with such utmost frankness, declared what awaits those who are listening to a waltz at this moment in the forest near the front. It is not surprising that most of the songs that were born in the trenches, born of the war, such as “The Blue Handkerchief”, “Dark Night”, “Fire beats in a cramped stove ...”, “In the forest near the front”, “Spark”, were purely lyrical. These songs warmed the soldier's heart, chilled by the cold wind of a harsh military life.

But the main songs of the military were songs to the verses of V. Lebedev-Kumach "Holy War" and M. Isakovsky "Katyusha".

Military poetry with a woman's face

Olga Bergholz (1910 - 1975)

During the Great Patriotic War, Bergholz, remaining in her native city for all 900 days of the blockade, worked on the Leningrad radio (the performances were included in the book Leningrad Speaks, 1946, the 1st edition was withdrawn in connection with the so-called Leningrad deed after the defeat of the magazines "Zvezda" and "Leningrad"). Often, exhausted from hunger, she spent the night in the studio, but she never lost her spirit, supporting her appeals to the people of Leningrad with confidential and courageous verses. During the war, O. Bergholz created her best poetic works dedicated to the heroism of the defenders of the city: “Leningrad Poem”, poem “February Diary”, poems included in the books “Leningrad Notebook”, “Leningrad”, “Leningrad Diary”, and other works . Bergholz traveled to the part of the army, her poems were published on the pages of newspapers, on the posters of "Windows TASS". The lines of O. Bergholz are carved on the granite stele of the Piskarevsky memorial cemetery: "No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten."

Julia Drunina (1924 - 1991)

When the Patriotic War began, at the age of sixteen he enrolled in a voluntary sanitary squad at the ROCK (Regional Red Cross Society) and worked as a nurse in an eye hospital. Participates in the construction of defensive structures near Mozhaisk, falls under the bombing and, performing his direct duties, becomes a nurse of an infantry regiment. She fought and was wounded. After being wounded, she was a cadet at the School of Junior Aviation Specialists (ShMAS), after which she was assigned to an assault regiment in the Far East. Battalion medical instructor; With all his might, he rushes to the front. Having received a message about the death of his father, he goes to the funeral on dismissal, but from there he does not return to his regiment, but goes to Moscow, to the Main Directorate of the Air Force. Here, having deceived everyone, she receives a certificate that she has lagged behind the train and is going to the West.

In Gomel he was assigned to the 218th Rifle Division. She was wounded again. After recovery, she tried to enter the Literary Institute, but she failed. He returns to the self-propelled artillery regiment. Rank - foreman of the medical service, fights in the Belarusian Polissya, then in the Baltic states. Contusion, and November 21, 1944 receives a document "... unfit for military service."

Published as a poet since 1940. In early 1945, a selection of Drunina's poems was published in the Znamya magazine.

Vera Inber (1890 - 1972)

After spending three years in besieged Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War, Inber depicted the life and struggle of the inhabitants in poetry and prose. Her husband, professor of medicine Ilya Davydovich Strashun, worked at the 1st Medical Institute in the besieged city.

In 1946 she received the Stalin Prize for the blockade poem Pulkovo Meridian. Awarded with three orders and medals.

It is impossible not to recall other women poets of those times, such as A. Akhmatova, M. Aliger, R. Kazakova.

The lyrical poetry of the period of the Great Patriotic War is a bright, diverse phenomenon, wide in terms of the range of human feelings expressed in it. She was distinguished by the passion of the civil language and the height of her thoughts, striving for the struggle for the freedom of her Motherland. Truly, the poets of war knew "only one thought is power, one - but a fiery passion" - the will to win. Walking together with the people at war along the roads of war, they carefully peered into his face, listened to his speech, and in this constant closeness they found strength for their verse.

Courage

We know what's on the scales now
And what is happening now.
The hour of courage has struck on our clocks,
And courage will not leave us.

It's not scary to lie dead under the bullets,
It is not bitter to be homeless.
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.

We will carry you free and honest
And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivity
Forever! (A. Akhmatova, 1941)

The poetic journalism of the war period is an almost boundless phenomenon in its scope. The scale of newspaper work (and all journalistic poems were originally published in newspapers) was truly grandiose. Suffice it to say that, for example, in 1944, 821 military newspapers were printed, and their total one-time circulation was 3,195,000 copies.

From newspaper strips laid out at night,
Still smelling of front-line smoke,
Satire, song, slogan, poems
I come to my readers,” wrote Nikolai Brown.

And so all the poets-publicists could say.

Poetic journalism was an indispensable and militant participant in every day of military suffering. In her best works, she combined the sharp sharpness of a journalistic form, the deepest hatred of the enemy with ardent humanism, proletarian internationalism, with the deepest faith in the triumph of humanity. It was this magnificent and complex alloy that gave the poetic journalism of the period of the Great Patriotic War a colossal agitational power of influence.

ETERNAL ART

Poetry has lived, lives and will live indefinitely. If earlier these were complex works of ancient Greek poets, where the play on words and associations confused and confused the readers, then later this was embodied in the poetry of the Middle Ages and the Silver Age. Well, speaking in the language of today, then along with classical poetry, poetry is embodied in modern, youth art.

Poetry, the UNESCO decision says, can be the answer to the most acute and deepest spiritual questions of modern man, but for this it is necessary to attract the widest possible public attention to it. In addition, World Poetry Day should give an opportunity to express themselves more widely to small publishing houses, whose efforts mainly reach the readers of the work of contemporary poets, to literary clubs reviving the age-old tradition of a living sounding poetic word.

This Day, according to UNESCO, is intended to serve to create a positive image of poetry in the media as a truly modern art open to people.

Imagine our life without poetry... Without holiday greetings, without songs, without Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare, contemporary authors.... It will be a boring life without an explosion of emotions expressed in simple letters on paper, without that little mysticism when the same words, but written in a certain order, can move you to tears. The power of the word has a special energy that captivates and subjugates our imagination.

Vasily Zhukovsky

To poetry

A wonderful gift from the gods!

About fiery hearts fun and love,
O quiet charm, charm of the soul -

Poetry! With you

And sorrow, and poverty, and gloomy exile -

Lose their terror!

In the shade of the oak forest, above the stream,
Friend Phoebus, with a clear soul,
In his wretched hut,
Forgotten fate, forgotten fate -
Sings, dreams and - blessed!
And who, and who is not animated
Your divine influence?

Tsevnitsy rude brooding rattling

Laplander, wild son of the snows,

He glorifies his foggy homeland
And the unartificial harmony of verses,
Looking at the stormy waves, depicts
And your smoky hut, and the cold, and the sound of the seas,

And the fast run of the sleigh,

Flying through the snows with swift-footed deer.

Happy lot miserable,
Shout, leaning on the plow,

Drawn slowly by tired oxen,

Sings its forest, its peaceful meadow,
Carts creaking under the sheaves,
And the sweetness of winter evenings

When, with the noise of a blizzard, before the brilliant hearth,

In the circle of his sons

With a drink foamy and boiling,

He pours joy in the heart

And peacefully falls asleep at midnight,

Forgetting the sweat shed on the wild reins ...
But you, whom the ray of heaven quickens,

Singers, friends of my soul!

In the sad journey of this momentary life
Strew the thorny path with flowers
And pour out your flame into ardent hearts!

Yes, by the sound of your loud lyres
Hero, awakened to glory,
Divit and shake the world!
Yes, the young man is inflamed
Tears are shed from them in delight,
The altar of the fatherland kisses

And death for him, as a blessing, awaits!
Yes, the poor worker will blossom in soul

From your blessed songs!
But let your thunder fall
On these cruel and depraved,

Who, in shame, with lofty brows,
Innocence, valor and honor trampled underfoot,
They dare to call themselves demigods!
Friends of heavenly muses! captivated by vanity?

Despising momentary successes -

Insignificant voice of praise, cymbal ringing

empty, -
Despising the luxury of joy,
Let's follow in the footsteps of the greats! -

The path to immortality is open to us by fate!

Let us not shame ourselves with praise

High lot, contemptuous soul -

We dare to crown the worthy!

Is it Phoebov's favorite to chase a ghost?
To the favorite of Phoebov in the dust to grovel

And deceive Fortune with humiliation?

Offspring distributes crowns and disgrace:
Let's dare to turn our mausoleum into an altar!

O glory, admiration of the heart!
O sweet lot - to live in the love of offspring!

Not many become great and famous poets, but many at least once in their lives tried to compose poetry. After all, most people are far from alien to those “beautiful impulses of the soul”, which prompt a person to take a pen, a piece of paper and start creating. Write poetry without thinking about fame and immortality. After all, even a small, unknown poem written by a child is also a huge spiritual contribution to the cultural and intellectual prosperity of the whole society.

History of World Poetry Day

Only on November 15, 1999, UNESCO, at the 30th conference, adopted a resolution on the establishment of an international day, which was supposed to "breathe a second life" into the world poetic movement. For the first time, the holiday was celebrated on March 21 in 2000, in Paris, where the headquarters of UNESCO is located. The main goal of the International Day of Poetry was to emphasize the great importance that literature plays in the cultural life of modern society, to unite poets from all over the world and give them the right and opportunity to express themselves!

Traditions of the World Poetry Day in the world and Russia

Despite the fact that World Poetry Day is a young holiday, it is celebrated quite widely in the USA, Europe, and, of course, in Russia. On this day, it is customary to arrange evenings in literary clubs, meetings with readers, which are attended by both venerable and novice poets. The holiday is solemnly celebrated not only by poets and their readers, but also by the philological faculties of higher educational institutions, many schools, publishing houses of literary magazines, almanacs and newspapers.

World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st. In 2020, the holiday takes place for the 21st time. Literary associations, poetry lovers, journalists, editors, critics, translators, teachers, students and graduates of philological educational institutions, people who are passionate about writing poetry take part in the celebrations.

The purpose of the holiday is to introduce people to poetry, to provide an opportunity for young talents to express themselves.

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history of the holiday

Poetry Day first appeared in 1938 in the US state of Ohio. It was initiated by the poet Tessa Sweezy Webb. The holiday was held on October 15 - the birthday of the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In 1951, it was celebrated as National Poetry Day by 38 US states and Mexico.

World Poetry Day was officially established by the resolution of the 30th session of the General Conference of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) dated November 15, 1999. The holiday was first held on March 21, 2000. In Russia, it was celebrated in Moscow at the Taganka Theater.

Holiday traditions

Participants of the celebrations give each other rare books, share their impressions of the works, recite poems, and discuss new works.

Thematic evenings are arranged in educational institutions. Students make presentations about the life of literary figures, read rhymed lines from memory.

Radio stations and television broadcast programs about the life and work of poets.

There are words in Russian that do not rhyme: desman, lark, frost, embankment, user, wire, torso.
In the works of Pushkin there are 22 thousand different words, Lermontov - 15 thousand.
In poems about the nature of Russian poets, three trees are most often found: birch, pine and oak.
In Russian, verbs with the ending "at" rhyme best. There are 5.5 thousand rhyme options for them.
The first poetess is considered to be the Akkadian princess Enheduanna, who lived in the 23rd century BC.
The Chinese Emperor Qianlong, who ruled in the 18th century, executed the authors of sad poems.
Scientists from the University of Liverpool in the UK have come to the conclusion that reading poetry activates the brain.

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History of World Poetry Day

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history of the holiday

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